Moose Hatrack
Active Member
We hold our annual church benefit banquet in an 80' x 114' gym. The floor is packed with round tables seating
8 each. No music, only live speakers. Some of the speeches have to overcome the clinks and clanks of people finishing dinner. Here's the gym...
North wall (80' wide) cinderblock
West wall (114' wide) cinderblock
South wall (80' wide) 80% cinderblock and 20% glass
East wall (114' wide) broken up by a second floor mezzanine with various hard surface nook and cranny walls below.
This year the 16'x8' stage will be centered on the West wall. The stage will likely sport two lecterns with a mic on each. It's not a debate, it's host ("interviewer") at one lectern and guest ("interviewee") at the other.
Loudspeaker inventory (no budget for rentals):
2 x QSC KW153
2 x Mackie SRM450v2
6 x Mackie SRM350v2
I have stands for all ten loudspeakers. Flying is not possible.
Question: How would you place the inventory around the room?
History: I've done this for five years with the stage centered on the North (80') wall. I flanked the stage with the KW153's. I placed the two 450's about 15' apart centered on the south wall (facing the stage). I grouped three 350's at the center of the West wall and three 350's at the center of the East wall. It was as bright as you'd expect but nobody complained (except one year when a speaker had a thick German accent, I don't have a knob for accents). The staff at the community center that houses this gym tells you when you rent it, "Our sound system is no good" and they are correct!
Thank you!
8 each. No music, only live speakers. Some of the speeches have to overcome the clinks and clanks of people finishing dinner. Here's the gym...
North wall (80' wide) cinderblock
West wall (114' wide) cinderblock
South wall (80' wide) 80% cinderblock and 20% glass
East wall (114' wide) broken up by a second floor mezzanine with various hard surface nook and cranny walls below.
This year the 16'x8' stage will be centered on the West wall. The stage will likely sport two lecterns with a mic on each. It's not a debate, it's host ("interviewer") at one lectern and guest ("interviewee") at the other.
Loudspeaker inventory (no budget for rentals):
2 x QSC KW153
2 x Mackie SRM450v2
6 x Mackie SRM350v2
I have stands for all ten loudspeakers. Flying is not possible.
Question: How would you place the inventory around the room?
History: I've done this for five years with the stage centered on the North (80') wall. I flanked the stage with the KW153's. I placed the two 450's about 15' apart centered on the south wall (facing the stage). I grouped three 350's at the center of the West wall and three 350's at the center of the East wall. It was as bright as you'd expect but nobody complained (except one year when a speaker had a thick German accent, I don't have a knob for accents). The staff at the community center that houses this gym tells you when you rent it, "Our sound system is no good" and they are correct!
Thank you!